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Had a lot of fun playing Talisman 2e the other night. A longtime Talisman fan in my regular group wants to get a game going for money, as he believes that adding stakes to the game would increase PvP vigorousness. Everyone seems to be on board with the idea but as most of our group has never...

Got to play some Talisman 2e the other night, a rare treat these days! The co-leader of the library BX game and I are working with some of our coworkers to organize a two-day mini "adventure gaming con" at our public library this summer. Since space and our number of participating GMs are...

The CotI boards still look like they're going strong, but I spend little time there and have no idea to what extent new members join or are active. A few years back, I thought that maybe Classic Traveller was on the verge of an OSR-like moment: "2d6 sci-fi" clones were being published, most...

LotFP has been off my radar for 10 years or so, but I seem to remember even back then reading news that a Ref book was in the works and supposedly going to be released "soon."

My 6yo daughter has been on an Adventure Time kick lately, so it's been fun to re-watch some of that show with her. Fun, wacky stuff!

I'm just down the road from you in Round Rock! Not sure how the viewing will be with all the clouds (and impending rain), but some of my coworkers and I are going to go to a park nearby to have a look. I'll also listen to "Eclipse" (and probably the rest of Dark Side of the Moon) and Eclipse...

That's a bummer indeed. Here's hoping your next session is well-attended! We've actually done away with online registration for a lot of our free library events for that exact reason -- people register and then don't show up. It doesn't cost them anything, so there's little pressure to...

Wilderlands of High Fantasy (JG) and the Dreamlands (CoC) are my favorite settings for actually running adventures. Boutique settings like Tekumel and Glorantha have intrigued me for decades, but I've never had the motivation or opportunity to run either. EDIT: Totally forgot about Dolmenwood...

FWIW, there's an old but very helpful thread on this very topic at the Original D&D Discussion forum: "You, too, CAN run Empire of the Petal Throne".

Lots of Alio Die lately, his early music-infused ambient works are great imagination fodder and background music for prepping my Fading Suns game.

Bleh, I forgot they were putting out a 5e conversion... No, go for the original edition, which uses a variant of the 2d6-based Vortex System that powers Cubicle 7's Doctor Who RPG. Nary a class or level (or d20) in sight! It's been a while since I looked at them, but IIRC the Vortex Rocket...

A true "Brackett Solar System RPG" would be a glorious thing! Rocket Age isn't 100% it, but it's probably the closest I've encountered. Big-time 1930s pulp sci--fi vibes, planetary sourcebooks on Mars, Venus, and Jupiter, and a setting in which it would be easy to play out tales like those of...

Lots of great suggestions so far! Here are a couple that haven't been mentioned yet: The Nifft the Lean series by Michael Shea The Bard series by Keith Taylor

Ronald Hutton is a treasure! I haven't read that one, but I'm sure it'll be a fascinating read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, a book that's been on my to-read list since it came out (almost 20 years ago!) Its inclusion on the Dolmenwood inspirational reading list finally bumped it to the top of the queue...

The Dolmenwood Kickstarter is really exciting, it was fun to watch it fund in 45 minutes and then hit all the stretch goals in less than 7 hours! I backed at the Limited + Loot level, and will pick up some of the add-ons as well. It's safe to say I've been waiting for this Kickstarter since...

In the scenario, my fallout shelter gaming group and I could probably have plenty of fun with just a bag of dice, paper, pencils, and whatever gaming knowledge has collectively accumulated in our brains. Already envisioning lots of FKR-style play with just a few d6... That said, I'm still...

The open table BX D&D game I co-DM at my local library has had 20+ character deaths in 10 sessions. (We typically have 16-20 players show up, split between two tables.) I haven't had any PC deaths in my home games for a while, mostly because I have veteran players who are cautious and know when...

It was a requirement for my MA in music history. Wish I could provide you with lots of info about the course, but sadly I don't recall many specific details other than the aforementioned Thirty Years War research early in the course (in the context of how it impacted European society and the...

How did you like running Fastpass? I had a ton of fun, the hardest bit of prep for me was charting out the starting locations and planned movements of the various enemy agents. A bit tedious, but ultimately worth the effort at the table. Before the first session of "not-Mission...